Frank Lowy Quotes

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle wounds - you come out the other side, and it just makes you tougher.

I used to sleep on floors and face racial abuse.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.

It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.

There is too much hate in the world; too much hurt.

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn't respect that.

We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.